Theophrastus von Hohenheim, a Swiss-German physician who burned the books of Avicenna in public and taught that remedies should be made by the chemist’s fire, with mercury, antimony, and the metals. “The dose alone makes the poison” is his.
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- MummyPowdered embalmed human remains, sold by the apothecaries.
- Opium poppyPapaver somniferum; opium is the dried latex of its unripe seed heads.
- QuicksilverElemental mercury, and its salts such as calomel and corrosive sublimate.
- SaltSalt exorcized and blessed, “by the God who commanded you to be cast into the water throug
- St. John’s wortHypericum perforatum.
- SulfurBrimstone; “live” sulfur (solfo vivo) is native sulfur.
- Weapon-salveAn ointment, with moss from a dead man’s skull, human fat, blood, and other ingredients, a